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Honest Trailer - It (2017)

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It (2017) is the 229th episode of Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr and Dan Murrell. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies the 2017 horror movie It, which is an adaption of the Stephen King novel of the same name and remake of the 1990 TV miniseries. It was published on January 16, 2018 as part of Screen Junkies second annual Fan Appreciation Month. The video is 5 minutes 12 seconds long. It has been viewed over 4.8 million times.

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"The scary clown movie, that was so scary, it killed the actual clown industry...? Thank you, movie...! Thank you so much...!" ~ Honest Trailers - It (2017)

Script[]

We asked you to vote for the 2017 movies you wanted us to make an Honest Trailer for. Now, your number three choice floats, too.

From the twisted mind of Stephen King, master of horror, suspense, and really inconsistent movie adaptations... (plays clips from Cujo, Misery, and The Langoliers)

Charles Brady (Sleepwalkers (1992)): People really should learn to keep their hands to themselves. (gives Mr. Fallows his own severed hand, then transforms into a werecat)

...comes the scary clown movie, that was so scary, it killed the actual clown industry...? (a The Hollywood Reporter article with the title "'It' Movie Causing Legit Clowns to Lose Work" pops up) (whispering) Thank you, movie...! Thank you so much...!

It

Life in Derry, Maine has its ups... and clowns, because Pennywise is lurking in the gutter (shows Georgie yelping after finding Pennywise in a storm drain), and this piece of It will eat you alive, unless he just feeds on people's fear...

Pennywise: (to Eddie) Tasty, tasty, beautiful fear...

...or maybe he eats you alive and feeds on your fear...

Pennywise: (to the Losers Club) --feast on your flesh as I feed on your fear.

...or, maybe he'll just scare you real bad and leave you alone; it's... kind of muddled. Rule of thumb: main characters get spooked, everyone else is clown food. (shows Pennywise killing Patrick Hockstetter)

Journey to the idyllic child murder capital of America...

Ben: --people die or disappear six times the national average.

...and meet a Losers Club full of Goonies and Lost Boys, kids who'd beat One Direction fans in a screaming contest (shows the Losers Club boys screaming after finding corpses in the sewers); there's the leader (Bill), the sick one (Eddie), the bookworm (Ben), the kid from Stranger Things... in glasses (Richie), the girl one (Beverly), and also the other two (Stanley and Mike)... whose character development got cut for time. Mike doesn't say a word for 45 minutes of screen time! Do you really want to turn one of the book's main characters into the Winston of the movie? Really? Okay, movie; you're the movie.

Thrill as each child's fear preys on them in a unique form; just try not to notice that it preys on them in the exact same way, where the kid will go off on their own (montage of the children traveling to a secluded area), notice something out of the ordinary (montage of the children looking at something weird), and slooowwly walk towards it (montage of the children approaching said thing)... until a monster pops out. (montage of the children being attacked) Y'all know you can just say "nope" and walk the other way, right? (plays the clip of the children entering the abandoned house in reverse) Problem solved!

Ride the wave of nostalgia that's still sweeping Hollywood, and get your required dose of 80's pop culture, like... New Kids on the Block (shows Beverly standing next to a New Kids on the Block poster), mullets (zooms in on Henry Bowers' mullet), that terrible Street Fighter game (shows an arcade machine displaying the 1987 Street Fighter game), that time in school where girls have started puberty but boys are still years off...

Ben: (to Beverly) --we're in the same class.

...not knowing how AIDS works...

Eddie: My mom's friend... in--in New York City got it... by--just by touching a dirty pole on the subway. And a drop of AIDS blood got into his system through--through a hangnail.

...and of course, the kid from Stranger Things, which makes you nostalgic for Stranger Things, which makes you nostalgic for the 80's, which makes you nostalgic for Stephen King's It. And the circle is complete.

Feast on this enjoyable movie adaptation of a popular TV adaptation of a creepy book, that managed to out-creep Tim Curry, and wisely punted the boring adult stuff that no one remembers to the sequel, plus made some radical departures from the original book, ditching the 50's era, that preteen gangbang scene, and the appearance of Maturin, the god turtle, who teaches Billy how to perform the magic Ritual of Chüd. You guys made that one up. No? Really? That's in there? (shows the poem describing Maturin from the The Dark Tower series) Wow; makes sense to cut it, but at the same time, I kind of want to see that!

So enjoy a horrifying trip down memory lane, that cements clowns as the scariest childhood thing since dolls and puppets, making boatloads of cash for everyone involved (shows the film's total box office gross as $698.8 million), and guarantees that somebody somewhere just greenlit a Maximum Overdrive remake. (shows a driverless road roller crushing and killing a young boy in Maximum Overdrive) ...I don't know if I'm ready for another Stephen King-aissance, you guys; it's gonna be a bumpy ride. (shows Billy Halleck accidentally running over and killing Suzanne Lempke with his car in Thinner)

Starring: Dorky Pig (Jaeden Lieberher as Bill Denbrough); Way More Important in Chapter 2 (Chosen Jacob as Mike Hanlon); Kyle Broflovski (Wyatt Oleff as Stanley Uris); Why Write a Joke When Your Real Name is Finn Wolfhard? (as Richie Tozier); OG Chunk (Jeremy Ray Taylor as Ben Hanscom); Young Sheldon (Jack Dylan Grazer as Eddie Kaspbrak); Justice for Bev (Sophia Lillis as Beverly Marsh); But Doctor, I Am Pagliacci (Bill Skarsgård as It/Pennywise); and The Insane Clown Posse (shows a group shot of the Losers Club).

Stephen Kings

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Honest title for It (2017) - Stephen Kings. Titles designed by Robert Holtby.

(shows Mike heading down an alleyway with a theater marquee in the background advertising Batman (1989) and Lethal Weapon 2) Batman came out on June 23rd, and Lethal Weapon 2 came out on July 7th, so Derry either gets movies really early, school gets out really late, or they wanted to give us one more hit of that sweet, sweet nostalgia.

Trivia[]

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Honest Trailer Commentaries - It (2017)

Watch the full Honest Trailer Commentary on YouTube

Reception[]

Honest Trailers - It (2017) has a 97.0% approval rating from YouTube viewers. Syfy Wire said the Honest Trailer was "more lighthearted and insightful than expected." SlashFilm found the Honest Trailer notable for pointing out "the formulaic way all the kids are haunted by Pennywise, the endless fascination with nostalgia, and the muddled motivation for what Pennywise really wants from the kids." Comicbook.com wrote that the Honest Trailer contains "a great connection in making fun of the total inconsistency in Stephen King movie adaptations, and then pointing out the similarly inconsistent nature in Pennywise's kills." ScreenRant praised the Honest Trailer for the highlighting "the stereotypical nature of each character" and for mentioning the book-to-film changes including "the most controversial moment of the novel and the appearance of the Turtle." The Mary Sue agreed with Screen Junkies' comment that "It was capitalizing on both the enduring popularity of Stephen King and the Stranger Things appeal."

Production credits[]

Video thumbnail for Honest Trailers - It

Video thumbnail for Honest Trailers - It

Voiceover Narration by Jon Bailey

Title design by Robert Holtby

Producers - Dan Murrell, Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr, Max Dionne

Written by Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr, Dan Murrell

Edited by Kevin Williamsen and TJ Nordaker

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